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I’m one proud dad :)
Just got back from my daughters year 7 Graduation. My daughter was nominated to give the opening speech of the night, thanking the teachers and school for their 7 years of training and education. She did a great job in front of a few hundred people.
Got a pleasant surprise tonight at the award ceremony too. My wife and I were hoping my daughter would get the Music award as she was school music captain all year and had been getting commendation awards all year too, but she got passed up, Then we thought she may get the Citizenship award like her brother got in 2007, because she has a good reputation for helping anyone who needs help, without being asked, the same as my son.
When she didn’t win those award I thought she must have been pipped at the post. I was a bit disappointed for her to be truthful.
The last award of the night was for Tiffani though. DUX of her school for 2009.
We knew she was a clever kid, but Dux was something that other kids got…
Interestingly, the DUX last year was her Violin partner in 08
One proud mum and dad though. As proud of our son for his perpetual award in 07 I might add 🙂
sorry for the poor pics but I was at the back of a very big room with a tele lens and no tripod 👿 Just wanted to share with my uskb friends…
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Wow that’s awesome Shane, I’m even proud for you, I also used to sit in assembly each year and wonder who they great people were who always ended up being Dux of the school, I think I got class clown award 😕
Well done to Tiffani
cheers
Warrenn
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Well done!!!! 😀 Nothing makes you feel as good as your child making you proud, nothing in the world matches that feeling! 😀
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Congratulations to Tiffani!
Well done.
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Congratulations and well done Tiffani 😀 :appl: :appl:
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brilliant well done tiffani, you must be well chuffed shane 😉
nik
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Well done Tiffani, congratulations Shane :appl: :appl: :appl:
Lorraine
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congratulations to the two of you for having such clever children 😀
very well done Tiffani I’m sure it was well deserved.Lynn
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Congrats Tiffani and to you and yours Shane. 😀
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Well done Tiffani. 😀
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Well done Shane……………….
I must be the dunce as I had to Google DUX——– "In schools in Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Iceland, Dux is a modern title given to the top student in academic and sporting achievement "
Don’t remember annual awards at my school in Aberdeen……. 😮 [/i]
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quote Graeme Harrold:Well done Shane……………….
I must be the dunce as I had to Google DUX——– “In schools in Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Iceland, Dux is a modern title given to the top student in academic and sporting achievement "
Don’t remember annual awards at my school in Aberdeen……. 😮 [/i]
You’re not the only one Graeme 😳
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Congratulations Tiffani and well done Shane you must be real proud.
Guess she gets her intelligence from Mrs Shane though 😉
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Many congratulations Tiffani :cheer:
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quote Graeme Harrold:Well done Shane……………….I must be the dunce as I had to Google DUX——– “In schools in Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Iceland, Dux is a modern title given to the top student in academic and sporting achievement "
Don’t remember annual awards at my school in Aberdeen……. 😮 [/i]
You must be smarter than me though mate…. I never even considered googling it to find out what it was 😳 🙄
WTG Shane & family
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quote Gary Birch:quote Graeme Harrold:Well done Shane……………….
I must be the dunce as I had to Google DUX——– “In schools in Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Iceland, Dux is a modern title given to the top student in academic and sporting achievement "
Don’t remember annual awards at my school in Aberdeen……. 😮 [/i]
You must be smarter than me though mate…. I never even considered googling it to find out what it was 😳 🙄
WTG Shane & family
Google is my IQ………… :lol1:
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Shane
very happy for you and yours
great news mate, even better now I know what dux means,
I thought only people from Karl Williams’s part of the woods used that term."are you ok m’dux"
Peter
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quote Gary Birch:You must be smarter than me though mate…. I never even considered googling it to find out what it was 😳 🙄
WTG Shane & family
🙄 🙄 I’m off to google to find out what ‘WTG’ means 😀
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Harry let me know when you find out 🙄 thanks Graeme I had no clue and didn’t think to google 🙄 so an extra special well done Tiffani now I know it means more than I imagined
Lynn
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Tiffani asked me to pass on her sincerest thanks. She is well chuffed that so may people she doesn’t know took the time to congratulate her. She didn’t realise UKSB’s had such a lovely community spirit.
Sorry about the confusion to the meaning of DUX 😳
Neil, she gets her intelligence from her mum (won a scholarship with a bank in year 12) and also my sister who was an ‘A’ student all her life, who now administers a company that turns over $5mil per month.
It does explain why I had a hard time helping her with her homework though. My standard answer became ‘I haven’t got a clue, you better ask your mother’ 😳
Tiffani has been nominated for a university scholarship at High School next year too, so we’ll see how that goes. Even if it just covers her text books, that will save us a fortune.
Thanks again friends…
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Well done Tiffani, You are doing well to take after Mum. Nice to see you tagging along for the ride Shane :lol1:
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quote Marcella:Nothing makes you feel as good as your child making you proud, nothing in the world matches that feeling!I totally agree,
That’ some achievement well done Tiffani…
all comes down to the parenting at the end of the day, well done Shane and Cathy.
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just want to add my Congrats – well done Shane for having nice kids :appl:
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Thanks fellas.
We got notified that Tiffani is in the top 9% of Maths Students in her age in Queensland.
Might get her to do my accounts I think.
Definitely takes after her mum 😳 😉
Cheers all
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quote Shane Drew:Thanks fellas.We got notified that Tiffani is in the top 9% of Maths Students in her age in Queensland.
Might get her to do my accounts I think.
Definitely takes after her mum 😳 😉
Cheers all
Kinda adds up! Lots of pluses there
Well done Shane and Cathy
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